I had a problem where I didn’t want to re-invent the wheel. The scenario was that an existing button on a form was calling an @Function which was passing a field from the existing form. like → @Command( [ToolsRunMacro]; RejectAgentName )
What I wanted to do was to use JavaScript to have the user to confirm that’s really what they wanted to do prior to blasting the request. Since JavaScript and @Functions can’t be combined in a single button, I adapted a trick from Urs Meli using one button to call another using JavaScript. I hid the @Function button and showed a new JS button. That way I didn’t have to re-code the existing button and re-engineer a whole collection of subforms, scriptlibraries, etc. in a complex web application.
The steps that you don’t want to overlook is to give the old, hidden button a name (“ID”) that you can reference and use a simple CSS command to make the button invisible on the browser. You cannot use a hide-when or the button will not be rendered into HTML. Go to the properties box for the button and set:
ID → Hidden_Reject (or whatever name is appropriate)
Style → display:none
– code for new button –
// – Confirm whether or not the user really wants to reject the request –
// 12/2006 dcj Rather than jumping through lots of hoops to save the document and force an
// agent to run, simply simulate a click of the existing button which calls the agent.
//
if ( confirm( “Are you sure you want to REJECT this access request?” ) )
{
var rejBut = document.getElementById( "Hidden_Reject" );
if ( rejBut )
{
rejBut.click( );
}
else
{
alert( ' this should never happen -- no rejBut ' );
}
}
else
{
window.status = 'no action taken';
}
You may be wondering why I did it this way. Mainly because of interactions with other agents, buttons, and design elements which I did not want to hunt down, change, and debug. I found this to be an easy way to achieve it with a limited amount of fuss. There’s more than one way to skin a cat.
tip from Urs Meli:
http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/nd6forum.nsf/0/9f80f0d4f90dc4408525712a005024a5?Open
HTH,
Doug